Using drawing tools
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There are three drawing tools available in VCW VicMan's Photo Editor: Pencil , Paintbrush and Eraser .

tools_pencil The Pencil lets you draw freeform and straight lines without anti-aliasing. It uses the foreground color. You can choose between two shapes (square and circle) and two modes (freeform or line) in the options window. You can also specify the tool's size and opacity .

tools_paintbrush2 The Paintbrush lets you draw straight and freeform lines with anti-aliasing. It makes use of the foreground color. Just as with the Pencil tool, you can choose between two shapes (square and circle) and two modes (freeform or line) in the options window. You can also specify the tool's size and opacity .

tools_eraser The Eraser tools is frequently used for deleting the previously drawn artwork by filling the area with the background color. The tool can be used in two shapes (square and circle) and two modes (freeform or line) which you can choose in the options window. You can also adjust the tool's size and opacity in the same window.

To temporarily transform any of the above-mentioned tools to the Eyedropper tool, hold down the Alt button while choosing the tool form the toolbar menu and then moving your mouse cursor over the editing window.

Note
that all the drawing tools apply to selected regions. By default the whole image is selected. When you select an area of the image, the tools apply changes to the selected area only.